Awersy i rewersy modernizmu. Paradoksy „pejzaży łódzkich” Władysława Strzemińskiego
Obverses and Reverses of Modernism: The Paradoxes of Władysław Strzemiński’s “Landscapes of Łodź”

Author(s): Agnieszka Karpowicz
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Władysław Strzemiński; functionalism; modernism; urbanism; cultural landscape
Summary/Abstract: The author analyses Pejzaże łódzkie and the lithographs from the series Łódź bez funkcjonalizmu by Władysław Strzemiński in relation to his urban project proposed in the article Łódź sfunkcjonalizowana. She searches for the multilateral relations between the artist's works and texts from the 1930s and the cultural landscape of Łódź at the time. This approach makes it possible to point out the main tensions, crises and internal contradictions of Łódź modernism in architecture and urban planning, Strzemiński's art and his urban experience, but also, more broadly, the crisis of modernism understood as a formation within modern culture.

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